WE'RE COMING BACK !!!

WE'RE COMING BACK !!!

Author: Forgotten News Podcast October 7, 2024 Duration: 1:07

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There’s a certain kind of story that crackles with urgency when it breaks, dominating conversations and front pages, only to vanish completely a few years later. FORGOTTEN NEWS PODCAST goes looking for those stories. Each episode is a deep dive into a different moment that once captivated the public, an event or figure that seemed indelible but somehow slipped through the cracks of our collective memory. You’ll hear about scandals that toppled empires of reputation, inventions that promised to change everything, and personal dramas that played out on a very public stage-all now quietly gathering dust in old newspaper archives and forgotten diaries. The aim isn’t just to recount these tales, but to understand why they resonated so powerfully in their moment and explore what their disappearance says about how we remember. It’s a process of careful excavation, piecing together narratives from primary sources, historical accounts, and the cultural echoes that remain. Tuning into this podcast feels like opening a long-lost trunk in the attic; every story is presented with the immediacy it once held, allowing you to experience the surprise, outrage, or wonder just as an audience did decades or even centuries ago. These are the headlines that time edited out, brought back to life.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

FORGOTTEN NEWS PODCAST
Podcast Episodes
5 MYSTERY LYNCHINGS IN OHIO: 1877-1932 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:55
There were 21 lynchings in the State of Ohio, between 1856 and 1932. This episode tells the stories of the 5 lynchings, for which the least amount of information exists. These lynchings took place in 1877 (two), 1892, 19…
POLICE BLOTTER & COURT NEWS – JUNE 19, 1868 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:34
Strange — But Forgotten: Mini-Episode # 4. A look at the news of various random local arrests and criminal court cases, in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, as published verbatim in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, on June 19, 1868. A tr…
BONUS EPISODE: TWO LYNCHINGS AND A PSYCHOLOGIST [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 18:48
Psychologist Kate Bowers Wallinga offers her professional opinion regarding the events which led to the lynchings in New Richmond, Ohio, of George Mangrum in 1876 and Noah Anderson in 1895. GUEST VOICE: Kate Bowers Walli…
TWO LYNCHINGS IN ONE SMALL TOWN: 1876 & 1895 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:18
The small town of New Richmond, Ohio, was the location of the lynchings of a violent serial rapist and murderer in 1876, and the killer of a beloved elderly man in 1895. This episode tells the tragic and terrifying chain…
RULES FOR LADIES / RULES FOR GENTLEMEN: 1845 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:21
On this episode, we celebrate St. Valentine’s Day, by taking a look at a set of Rules for Ladies and Rules for Gentlemen, that was published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1845. Were they good advice (then or now)? Sev…
McGURK’S SUICIDE SALOON, NEW YORK CITY - 1893-1902 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:12
In the 1890s, a wild, lawless (and often terrifying) dive saloon in New York City somehow became a destination for desperate young women who desired to end their life. HISTORICAL REFERENCES: Sante, Luc, Low Life: Lures a…
EQUAL IN DEATH: The Last Public Execution in Ohio – 1844 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06
On February 9, 1844, Esther Foster and William Graham were jointly executed by hanging, in Columbus, Ohio, on the same scaffold. It was the last public execution held in the state. Foster was an African-American woman an…

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